Fabulous Anachronisms at The Ren Faire

If the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur, Colorado is, essentially, one big outdoor, participatory Renaissance theater, then it is definitely a comedy, and anachronisms are among the funniest jokes. The King with a tray of French Fries, a young squire on his iPhone, a swashbuckling pirate with a Marlboro light and an Iron Man watch: here in this slide show we bring you some of our favorites.

I’ll never forget when I was training at historic site, and our supervisor asked us to give examples of other accurate historic reenactments we’d seen. He prompted us by saying, “Like the Renaissance Faire, right?” Several newbies nodded, but a few others laughed and shook our heads, to which my super smiled and said, “NOT!”

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